We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down ; In vain we search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he : And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. Overland Monthly - Page 6801895Full view - About this book
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1878 - 512 pages
...That gentleness and grace that spring From union, Lord, with thee. Sir Edward Denny. A present help. 1 WE may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down ; In vain we search the lowest cleeps, For him no depths can drown. 2 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is he ; And... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1878 - 260 pages
...RDWARD .IH.:. Аpr^Ыp. С.M' \VE may not climh the heavenly steeps g ' To hring the Lord Christ down i In vain we search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. 2 Bnt warm, sweet, tender, even yet A preseat help is he 1 And faith has yet its Olivet, And love its... | |
| Baptist hymnal - 1879 - 820 pages
...that Way to know, That Truth to keep, that Life to win, Whose joys eternal flow. ow r>OANE. 222 CM WE may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. 2 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet, A present help is He ; And faith has yet its Olivet, And love... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1879 - 536 pages
...The strile of tongues forbear ; Why forward reach, or hackward look, For love that clasps like air? We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord Christ down : In vain we serrch the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lmeaments... | |
| Charles De Witt Bridgman - 1880 - 292 pages
...love; And make us, when this life is o'er, Still one with Thee above. 1 14 • JOHN G. WHTTTIER. 1 WE may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. 2 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help is He ; And faith has yet its Olivet, And love its... | |
| Jesus Christ, Henry Southgate - 1880 - 344 pages
...The strife of tongues forbear : Why forward reach, or backward look, For love that clasps like air ? We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For Him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of Him we know in outward shape, And in... | |
| Charles Herbert Richards - 1880 - 538 pages
...sea. And comprehendeth love. Onr uu I ward Hpa con-fess the name. All oth - er namee a - bove . 238 2 We may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape The lineaments restore Of him we know in outward shape And in the... | |
| Congregational Union of England and Wales - 1880 - 1020 pages
...am the Way, the Truth, and the Life : no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me. — John xiv. 6. 1 WE may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the...down ; In vain we search the lowest deeps For Him who fills Heaven's throne 2 But to the contrite spirit yet A present help is He ; And faith has yet... | |
| Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...The strife of tongues forbear ; Why forward reach, or backward look, For love that clasps like air? hundred circling camps ; They have builded him an...damps : I have read his righteous sentence by the dim Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lineaments restore Of him we know in outward shape And in the... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1881 - 570 pages
...strife of tongues forbear ; Vhy forward reach, or hackward look, For love that clasps like air? tYe may not climb the heavenly steeps To bring the Lord...search the lowest deeps, For him no depths can drown. Nor holy bread, nor blood of grape, The lmeaments restore Of him we know in outward shap^ And in the... | |
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